141
Front End
06.05.2013
Mix It Up - A CSS3 and JQuery Filter & Sort Plugin
A light-weight but powerful jQuery plugin that provides animated filtering and sorting of categorized and ordered content.
27.04.2013
Usability Checklist - Catch common usability problems before user testing
Probably guilty of a few of those here, but a useful reminder of things to check before launching.
27.04.2013
Type & Grids - Responsive HTML templates
Simple to set up and super-customizable, Type & Grids is a responsive HTML5 template with nice typography.
17.04.2013
Draggabilly - Drag stuff about (with some bells and whistles).
"Rad because it supports IE8+ and multi-touch."
15.04.2013
Packery - Fancy JavaScript Bin-Packing
Packery layouts can be intelligently ordered or organically wild. Elements can be stamped in place, fit in an ideal spot, or dragged around.
27.03.2013
imagesLoaded - jQuery plugin detecting when images are loaded
jQuery is all like "You images done yet or what?" An improved, extended and crossbrowser replacement for standard .load() function, by Dave Desandro.
84
Design
15.05.2013
Red Pen - Super simple feedback app.
Get annotated feedback on your designs, quickly and easily. Very slick, if you can stand the horrible, overly friendly copy.
06.05.2013
Retinize It - Photoshop actions for slicing retina graphics
Photoshop actions for preparing designs for iOS or Retina-display websites.
04.05.2013
Moqups - Online Vector Based Mockup & Wireframing Tool
HTML5 app for creating crisp mockups, wireframes & interactive prototypes.
27.04.2013
Web Colour Data - Get the colour palette of any website
Simply type in a URL and get a colour usage breakdown for that page. Which might be of use to someone, somewhere.
15.04.2013
Merize Icons - 300 free icons in circles.
You may use these icons for both commercial and personal projects and customize them any way you like.
07.03.2013
iconoci - royalty-free icons for designers
Look - there's a rainbow in there and everything. Never seen a weatherman predict a rainbow, but it's in there if he does...
70
Misc
25.03.2013
OnSite - Quality, curated freelancers. No middle-man. No percentage.
A new resource for finding and hiring creative freelance talent. (Disclosure: It's ours).
12.03.2013
Antwort - Responsive Layouts for Email. Makes HTML email fun again!
Responsive Layouts for Email. Makes HTML email fun again!
05.03.2013
StyleDocco - generate documentation and style guides from CSS
StyleDocco generates documentation and style guide documents from your stylesheets. Requires Node.js
07.01.2013
Site Inspire - Design Inspiration
One of the internets better inspiration galleries gets a facelift for 2013.
04.12.2012
Brand Colors - Hex codes for Dribbble, Dropbox and Drupal etc...
Might be handy if you don't have PS to hand.
28.11.2012
Over API - All The Cheat Sheets
A fairly comprehensive collection of developer cheat sheets.
56
Back End
22.02.2013
Concrete5 cheat sheet
A cheat sheet for C5 developers. Information was compiled from emails, documentation and the Concrete5 support forums.
22.02.2013
Concrete5 Cookbook
Recipes and tutorials for implementing features in your Concrete5-based website. Intended to provide additional context to developers beyond the official C5 documentation.
03.02.2013
Drupal with version control and environments
I don't use Drupal, but I applaud the effort to bring sanity to CMS management with version control and staged deployments. I wonder how much of this could be ported to the likes of WordPress?
28.01.2013
Selfstarter
An open source starting point for building your own ad-hoc crowdfunding site.
28.11.2012
Prose - A Content Editor for GitHub
Prose is a web-based interface for managing text-based content in your GitHub repositories. Use it to create, edit, and delete files, and save your changes directly to GitHub.
31.10.2012
DB Patterns - Create, share and explore database patterns .
Dbpatterns is a service that allows you to create, share, explore database models on the web. And also you can fork already created database models.
50
Services
16.04.2013
Damn You Art School - Apps, Tools & Resources.
Apps, Tools, and Resources creative professionals to improve Productivity & Creativity. (Featuring Nylllon of course).
21.02.2013
Koken - Creative web site publishing
Koken is a free system designed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs to publish independent web sites of their work.
31.01.2013
CSS Trashman
The trashman examines your site's live DOM and reverse engineers a new, more elegant definition that captures styles down to the pixel.
11.01.2013
Browser Tap - Cross browser testing in the cloud
Forget VMs, screenshot services, or dedicated testing computers. BrowserTap works by broadcasting a live RTMP stream of a browser window on a cloud server.
09.01.2013
Space Box - A Content Subscription Service
Charge customers on a recurring basis for access to your content.
29
Apps
25.04.2013
Flinto - iOS prototyping made easy
"Flinto strikes the perfect balance between fast prototyping and realism. Prototypes run on iPhone or iPad and can be shared with anyone." Looks very promising.
29.01.2013
Zen Pen - A Minimal Online Writing App
A minimalist writing zone, where you can block out all distractions and get to whats important. Very nice it is too.
07.01.2013
Silkscreen - Preview images and icons on your iDevice
Easily preview your designs and icons on your iPhone and iPad.
31.08.2012
Gmvault - Gmail backup utility
Gmvault allows you to back and restore a Gmail account. Doesn't look particularly user friendly however, so if the command line terrifies you, stay away.
24.08.2012
Postbox
Postbox is a desktop email application for Mac and Windows, and a system for managing your life.
24.08.2012
nvALT - OSX note making app with Simplenote/Markdown intergration
I've been using this for around 8 months. It's one of those apps you wonder how you managed without it. It's keyboard-based note-taking, with search and integration with Simplenote. It's a fork of Notational Velocity.
10
eBooks
28.01.2013
Pixel Perfect Precision Handbook - From Us Two
A really good guide on how to keep your design work as sharp as possible from Us Two.
23.01.2013
UX Design for Startups - Free eBook
127 pages of real-life based advice from Marcin Treder
14.11.2012
Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns ~ Addy Osmani
"Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software development and are a very useful tool to have at your disposal". Tidy up that jQuery, Son.
14.11.2012
UX masterminds tell stories of their exciting lives as UX professionals
Never mind 007. User Experience Design is where it's all at.
14.11.2012
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web ~ Mark Boulton
Buy the ebook, or read for free online.
14.11.2012
Taking Your Talent to the Web (ebook) ~ Jeffrey Zeldman
"Written in 2001 for print designers whose clients want websites. While browser references and modem speeds may reek of 2001, much of the advice about transitioning to the web still holds true." ~ Zeldman